Ravioli

Kitty Reeves

Kitty Reeves

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Aaah, Ravioli. The universal favorite of pretty much everybody. It's also one of the most varied pastas I've ever eaten. You can stuff it with almost any vegetable or meat or cheese. Lobster, spinach, ricotta, and more are pretty popular in South Jersey. We've got gods know how many types of seafood ravioli, and all delicious!

Ravioli (plural; singular: raviolo) are a type of dumpling composed of a filling sealed between two layers of thin pasta dough. Usually served either in broth or with a pasta sauce, they originated as a traditional food in Italian cuisine.

The earliest known mention of ravioli appears in the writings of Francesco di Marco, a merchant of Prato in the 14th century. In Venice, the mid-14th-century manuscript Libro per cuoco offers ravioli of green herbs blanched and minced, mixed with beaten egg and fresh cheese, simmered in broth and seasoned with "sweet and strong spices". In Tuscany, some of the earliest mentions of the dish come from the personal letters of Francesco di Marco Datini, a merchant of Prato in the 14th century. In Rome, ravioli were already well-known when Bartolomeo Scappi served them with boiled chicken to the papal conclave of 1549.
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Ravioli can be made in many different ways, also! I personally make an extremely simple dish, where I get round raviolis from the store (there's a local company that makes them fresh and sells them to the local supermarket) and cook them up in a pan with some butter and chopped cremini mushrooms. It's super simple, easy and quick to make, but so insanely yummy!

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I generally eat the standard cheese raviolis, but I also love raviolis with any type of vegetable filling. Spinach, mushroom, and a friend once made a ravioli filled with roasted zucchini!

What type of ravioli do you like? Do you like the tradtion square ravioli? Or do you like the round type? Or even the triangle type? Do you make your own or buy them from a store? How do you make yours? :D
 
Ravioli is one of my favorite Italian dishes. I'm pretty conventional in my tastes in terms of liking the square style and meat filling. It's something I must try to make at some point but these days I'm just happy to pick it up from the store.
 
I like them stuffed with greens.
The best are Pansotti from Liguria, filled with a mix of wild herbs and greens and cottage cheese.
 
My favorite is lobster ravioli with a cream sauce. However, I can eat just about any kind. When I'm in the mood for vegetarian food, I turn to a mushroom ravioli, it is quite filling and satisfying in my opinion. I also did a lot of ravioli back in college. It was easy to boil and just pour some sauce on top if the ravioli was already made.
 
My brother makes a fabulous ravioli!! He does one with chicken and spinach and another with perscuitto and cheese. He makes his own pasta which tastes great and makes me jealous because I just cant make it the way that he can!!
 
Ravioli is my favorite type of pasta. It is super easy to cook, but incredibly tasty if the right ingredients are used!
I think people underestimate the value of home cooked food to be honest! Ravioli is one of the basic Italian pastas that you can cook even with no experience at all!

There are many things you can fill your pasta with, but one of my favorites it a homemade garlic sauce, (or shop bought if your short on time) and thinly sliced mushroom. It is such an intense flavor but is delicious.

There are a few ideas on the forum that I love the sound of, like filling with spinach! I will have to try that next time!
 
The best tasting ravioli I have tasted is the Ravioli and Vegetable Soup. They look like Chinese dumplings, but the taste is not like any dumpling. Soups are my favorite comfort food, and vegetables are healthy. So that would be the perfect healthy recipe and best use of ravioli. :)
 
Those ravioli pictures look awesome! I recall eating ravioli with tomato sauce from a can when I was a kid and I loved it, I even had them cold. Sadly that brand disappeared from the supermarkets here in my country.
 
Gelsemium said:
Those ravioli pictures look awesome! I recall eating ravioli with tomato sauce from a can when I was a kid and I loved it, I even had them cold. Sadly that brand disappeared from the supermarkets here in my country.
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They still make them here in the UK and I used to do the same as a child, though now I know it's not real ravioli.

I would like to make them myself, but that won't happen until I have my own kitchen and a pasta maker. I do have lots of ideas for fillings so when I do make them I will make huge batches and freeze them, as they are easy to freeze and then thaw whenever necessary.
 
Ah, my favorite pasta of all time!

I'll never forget how a couple of years ago I found some Giovanni Rana branded ravioli... with chocolate paste and filled with orange chocolate! They were beyond amazing and even if at first they appeared a bit strange the result was delicious, and it came with a little notebook of sauce recipes to accompany the ravioli!
 
Wow! I didn't know that ravioli used so many different ingredients. I always though that it was just pasta with beef in the middle. I'd like to try some of these different styles as well. Does anybody have any suggestions?
 
mongkok said:
Ah, my favorite pasta of all time!

I'll never forget how a couple of years ago I found some Giovanni Rana branded ravioli... with chocolate paste and filled with orange chocolate! They were beyond amazing and even if at first they appeared a bit strange the result was delicious, and it came with a little notebook of sauce recipes to accompany the ravioli!
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Wow you managed to find a dessert ravioli? That's so cool. I've only ever seen sweet ravioli on cooking competition shows. Would love to try it someday
 
Gabe said:
They still make them here in the UK and I used to do the same as a child, though now I know it's not real ravioli.

I would like to make them myself, but that won't happen until I have my own kitchen and a pasta maker. I do have lots of ideas for fillings so when I do make them I will make huge batches and freeze them, as they are easy to freeze and then thaw whenever necessary.
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When I see those cooking shows on TV and I see them fresh pasta I wish I could do the same, but at the same time I never got to that point. I feel it's an investment and with always so much to do cooking pasta from scratch seems something that takes too long.
 
I think I would like to try the ravioli with vegetable fillings, like zucchini and spinach and mushrooms. They look so very delicious in the pictures. I think I prefer the round raviolis to be filled with vegetables. :D They're all over the web.

I have not tried the triangle ones, and I don't think I have ever made ravioli myself. They look fun to prepare, and I enjoy browsing the web to look at the variations they come in. They could probably also make very delicious desserts.
 
sammien94 said:
Wow you managed to find a dessert ravioli? That's so cool. I've only ever seen sweet ravioli on cooking competition shows. Would love to try it someday
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Yup! I found them while I was on vacation in Spain, they were by Giovanni Rana (a popular Italian brand of pasta, I think it's just sold in some European countries?) and they were limited edition, unfortunately. :( I was lucky. But they were truly amazing, the chocolate and orange taste was so distinct and rich, and it paired so well with the chocolate pasta! I wish it was more of a mainstream thing, I've never seen anything like it since then.
 
mongkok said:
Yup! I found them while I was on vacation in Spain, they were by Giovanni Rana (a popular Italian brand of pasta, I think it's just sold in some European countries?) and they were limited edition, unfortunately. :( I was lucky. But they were truly amazing, the chocolate and orange taste was so distinct and rich, and it paired so well with the chocolate pasta! I wish it was more of a mainstream thing, I've never seen anything like it since then.
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I love that they were in Spain and not Italy lol. How much did they cost?? Sweet ravioli is definitely on my bucket list if dishes I'd like to try before I die.
 
Ravioli in Spain is something exquisite indeed, but at the same time I am guessing that there are quite a few good quality Italian restaurants all over the world, so we don't need to be in Italy to have good ravioli. I do guess they taste better in Italy! :)
 
I think any good chef can cook a pasta if they have been taught the right way and they use the right ingredients. I often have to add extra or don't have the right stuff and just wing it, which makes my cooking sometimes not so great!
 
sammien94 said:
I love that they were in Spain and not Italy lol. How much did they cost?? Sweet ravioli is definitely on my bucket list if dishes I'd like to try before I die.
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Hahah, I know! But I know they were sold at some point in Italy, too. They cost just as much as any other 500g packet of ravioli from the same brand, around €2.30 if I recall correctly. Since they're dessert ravioli you're not gonna be eating as much as regular ravioli (unless you want them all for yourself!) I believe that one packet is enough for four people.
 
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